Welcome To The Vivalanga Language Community

Best TV Series To Learn French For All Levels

One of my favorites way to dabble in a foreign language is to watch movies, but recently I have been noticing my attention span is decreasing. I decided that why not try TV series since they are from 25- 40 minutes long.

TV series have two main benefits:

1. Short Duration Easier to fit into your schedule

2. Longer Running Time Able to follow plot lines and characters over a longer period of time.

TV series are easier to fit into your schedule than movies. Also watching a movie in a foreign language can take a lot of focus where as watching an episode here and there is more sustainable.

Below I posted some of my favorite French TV series to get you started!

1. Les Aventures de Tintin

Storyline: Follow the adventures of a young Belgian detective and his loyal travel companion Snowy the dog as they travel the world, going from one adventure to the next.

2. Il était une fois l’homme

Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate

Genre: History

(Source allocine)

Number of episodes: 26

Duration/episode: 25 min

Storyline: The series explains world history in a format designed for children. The action focuses around one group. The same familiar characters appear in all episodes as they deal with the problems of their time.

3. Hero Corp

Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate

Genre: Action

(Source: Toutelatele)

Number of episodes: 85

Duration/episode: 25 min

Storyline: Following a war which took place in the 1980s, it was decided to create an organization to include all the superheroes to maintain world peace: the Hero Corp agency.

4. Plus Belle La Vie

Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate.

Genre: Drama

(Source: le parisien)

Number of episodes: 2613

Duration/episode: 25 min

Storyline:Soap opera based in the fictional “le Mistral” neighborhood in the Mediterranean port-city of Marseille. With more plot twists than a Hollywood movie, and plenty of melodrama, it’s more escapist than realistic in its portrayal of contemporary France.

5. Braquo

Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate

Genre: Drama , Crime

(Source: imdb)

Number of episodes: 32

Duration/episode: 46 min

Storyline: A group of police officers in Paris use violence and intimidation to solve crimes

6. Mafiosa

Difficulty: Intermediate.

Genre: Crime, Drama

(Source: imdb)

Number of episodes: 40

Duration/episode: 60 min

Storyline: After the cold blood murder of Francois Paoli, a notorious Corsican mobster, Sandra Paoli, his niece, takes over the reign of violence, money, drug and sex in a world of it’s own : Corsica.

7. Fais pas ci, fais pas ça

Difficulty: Intermediate.

Genre: Comedy

(Source: France 2)

Number of episodes: 68

Duration/episode: 42 min

Storyline: Comedy depicting two contrasting families over the course of a year. While their differences are evident, both families slowly become more and more drawn to one another along the way.

8. Les Revenants

Difficulty: Intermediate.

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

(Source: Canal +)

Number of episodes: 8

Duration/episode: 46 min

Storyline: In a small Alpine village, a group of men, women and children is in a state of confusion as they try to return to their homes after years of being away.

9. Engrenages

Difficulty: Beginner – Intermediate.

Genre: Crime

(Source: imdb)

Number of episodes: 8

Duration/episode: 52 min

Storyline: Follows criminal investigations in Paris from all the different points of view of a criminal investigation.

Categories

Your biggest barrier to effective language learning? Translating Hello fellow language learners! Here’s Theo, currently struggling padawan in the process of learning French and proud owner of an unhealthy obsession for languages: I speak Romanian, German, English, and in-progress Spanish and French. Some of these I’ve learnt as a child, others later in my

Why being bilingual helps keep your brain fit Most people in the world speak more than one language, suggesting the human brain evolved to work in multiple tongues. If so, asks Gaia Vince, are those who speak only one language missing out? In a café in south London, two construction workers are engaged in

Where is language in the brain? Language is all around us but where does it sit inside us, and will we ever be able to ‘read’ our brains? Gaia Vince investigates. If you read a sentence (such as this one) about kicking a ball, neurons related to the motor function of your leg and